Sunday, July 25, 2010

Burning!

. A forest fire is burning just outside two sides of my village!It started down in the valley, near our spring and spread to Hadassah hospital.Cars were damaged in the Hadassah parking lot before the fire could be controlled.

The neighboring moshavim/villages up on the mountain were being evacuated as of 3:00.

I walked closer to take pictures and could see the flames and hear the shouts of the fire fighters in the forest right above the gate to our moshav.

They have such pitiful old equipment.

Two planes are helping.

But now there is a new moked, a new fire starting up near Kennedy Memorial and Khirbet Sa'adim.

This in the photo is where I take walks in the evening. Our beautiful nature is now black and smoldering.

The buildings on top of the hill are the periphery of my village, near my house. The fire came that close!

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Over 500 dunams of natural woodland have been destroyed in the past few hours.

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It is a hot and windy day.

Pray for us!

.UPDATE: Now, at 8:30 p.m., things seem quiet and under control, thank God.Radio is now saying it burned 1000 dunams (= 247 acres) of trees (mostly planted by the Keren Kayemet/Jewish National Fund).Careless, thoughtless visitors to our spring caused this emergency by making a bonfire. grrrr!.

I just read about the fire and rushed here. Glad to hear you're okay. The news article I read also said that two villages were evacuated but that no one was hurt so far. Terrible about the trees and homes though.

It's a very sorrowful sight. I van imagine that you are all devastated. The fires we had recently took several days to extinguish. It was arson, for it started in various places at the same time in the dunes. It is so frightening for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.Did you see the Australian forest that were burnt by fires. I hope and pray that this will stop now in your country. I hope that there will soon be new plant life in those forests.